Term Gallery logo

Significados de wretched en inglés

Deserving or inciting pity.

Términos relacionados

Morally reprehensible.

Términos relacionados

Of very poor quality or condition.

Términos relacionados

Very unhappy; full of misery.

Términos relacionados
Sinónimos
Examples for "deplorable"
Examples for "deplorable"
1
Unfortunately, though his size is quite formidable, his speed is quite deplorable.
Boy’s Life
2
The specific case on Panorama, and any case like it, is deplorable.
The Guardian
3
The army was in the most deplorable condition of weakness and hunger.
David Crockett: His Life and Adventures
4
He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state.
Right Ho, Jeeves
5
The aspect of the streets on the following day was deplorable enough.
Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire
1
It didn't help that I was woeful at school games, of course.
The Irish Times
2
Other broader data sources confirm the prime minister's woeful record on parliament.
The Guardian
3
Our behaviour often reveals a woeful lack of understanding of basic arithmetic.
The Irish Times
4
Māori Council spokesperson Maanu Paul said the consultation process had been woeful.
Radio NZ
5
The incident throws a renewed spotlight on Indonesia's woeful air safety record.
Reuters
1
We had gone just over six miles, execrable by long-distance hiking standards.
The cactus eaters: how I lost my mind-and almost found myself-on...
2
Even such conveyances fared hard on the execrable roads of the period.
The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote
3
She has littered the whole estate with execrable names and offensive signs:
Extracts from Adam's Diary, translated from the original ms.
4
He went up and saw the cross, an execrable symbol to him.
The new yorker
5
The same old execrable Heatherleys looked down from the black oak panellings.
The Dark Flower
Uso de wretched en inglés
1
He said the action was an opportunity to clarify a wretched situation.
Radio NZ
2
The household affairs are in a wretched condition; everything is in disorder.
The Goose Man
3
Parliament voted to hold the wretched 2016 referendum by an overwhelming majority.
The Guardian
4
Veronica is amazed: isn't Zimbabwe supposed to be a wretched, dangerous place?
Night of knives
5
The colonel sat in wretched silence a few moments; then he arose:
From the Ranks
6
To know that my work must be lost made me intolerably wretched.
Ben-Hur
7
True-thewretched Bendigo knew no better; but no more did the General.
No Man's Land
8
It is a wretched business from start to finish, said Strange unconcernedly.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
9
The living conditions of the victim and her family have been wretched.
The Irish Times
10
Do you have any wine or something stronger in this wretched house?'
Stonewielder
11
Our whole history on this particular matter has been a wretched one.
Radio NZ
12
He was wretched; and in his wretchedness his resolves became involuntarily weakened.
The Parisians — Volume 03
13
It was the war of course, the uncertainty, the wretched, hateful windows!
The distant hours
14
There is also a lesson perhaps for this wretched, riven, chaotic government.
The Guardian
15
Every day I found the society of the wretched Balbi more intolerable.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 1...
16
He feels he will end his days in this wretched hotel room.
The new yorker
Sobre este término
Más colocaciones
Wretched a través del tiempo
Wretched por variante geográfica
Reino Unido
Común
Irlanda
Menos común
Estados Unidos de América
Raro